lead role

collocation in English

meaningsofleadandrole

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lead
adjective[before noun]
uk
/liːd/us
/liːd/
used to describe the main performer or part in ...
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role
noun[C]
uk
/rəʊl/us
/roʊl/
the position or purpose that someone or something has in a situation, organization, society, ...
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(Definition ofleadandrolefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflead role

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Second, beginning in the 1910s, theleadrolewithin the movement hitherto played by bourgeois, female activists passed to male engineers.
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Whilst the terminology may have changed, the opportunity therefore presents itself for nursing to take aleadrolein caring for those with ongoing needs.
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Two partners were female, one of whom took aleadrolein family planning services.
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Community nurses appear to show a hesitancy to project themselves forward into aleadrolein commissioning.
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There are grave risks of fragmentation in their criticalleadrole.
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Then there would be a process involving the access authority taking aleadroleto identify the detail.
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But because local authorities were given theleadrole, they did not.
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Theleadrolecan and should be left with the local community until it clearly has no further part to play.
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Therefore, we must consider how we can collaborate on working parties and projects in which the various agencies take theleadrole.
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It follows that we are opting for aleadrolein world stewardship.
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The service sector, which is vitally important, has to play a supporting rather than aleadrole.
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Industry needs to continue to play aleadrole.
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I accept that district and county councils have theleadrolein preparing overall strategy.
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I am pleased that local government retains theleadrolein emergency planning, as it is the appropriate level for such work to take place.
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The police have theleadrole, but local authorities and communities also have a vital part to play.
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Which nation state is seeking theleadrole?
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In the 1990s it is very wise to put employers in theleadrole.
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This is particularly the case where consultation and joint planning is really taking place and where local voluntary organisations are taking aleadrole.
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The report's solution, which we echo, is to give theleadroleto local authorities.
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Will he give an undertaking that the local authorities will take theleadrolein any initiatives to solve the problems in their areas?
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